Complexity and stability revisited

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 498-502

  Jansen, Vincent A A ^a   Kokkoris, Giorgos D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assembly; Community; Community matrix; Complexity; Ecology; Ecosystems; Interaction matrix; Lotka Volterra model; Random matrix

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITIVENESS; COMPLEXITY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0038050538     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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